Our recently released Fundraising & Capital Overhang Report breaks down dry powder by vintage year, summarizes which fund classes are most successful in collecting commitments and forecasts what all this means for the industry in the years to come. For the main takeaways from the report, watch the video above or peruse the charts below. With $535 billion…

ACG New York recently announced the results of its Annual Middle Market Survey, which notably found that 73% of respondents believe PE investments will outperform the S&P 500 in 2015. We recently spoke with ACG New York Board Member Randy Schwimmer to get his thoughts on the survey and the PE landscape in 2015.

After a banner year by multiple metrics for both private equity and venture capital, it makes sense that many LPs are looking to maintain or up their allocations to both asset classes. Using the PitchBook Platform to delve through thousands of updates to LP mandates, we’ve highlighted some notable allocation shifts: San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System…

Our recently released 1H 2015 Global PE Exits and Company Inventory uses the PitchBook Platform to uncover notable trends involving PE-backed company inventory, the most active industries for selling and much more. To catch the main highlights of the report, feel free to take 90 seconds to watch the video above or survey the visual recaps…

Did you know that you can literally copy lists from Excel and paste them into PitchBook? If not, read on, my friends. Our dev team has built an awesome list upload tool that everyone should know how to use because it’s a game changer. I’m going to show you how to upload lists of companies you…

Emerging market countries may well represent the greatest opportunity for growth in the private equity industry over the coming years, and in fact, we’ve already seen PE investing in developing countries expand since the financial crisis.

Public pensions are constantly being mandated to invest their money in various ways, including in the private equity and venture capital markets, which we track here at PitchBook. With an expansive set of data on limited partners and general partners in the space, we looked at some mandated pensions and generated recommendations for them from…

To conclude our series on PE portfolio management strategies and how they have evolved over the past several years, we’ve compiled a summary of key themes from our Q&As with industry experts and added some contextual data and analysis.

As 2015 gets underway, bitcoin is still grabbing plenty of attention, with some warning of its frailty and others dubbing this its make-or-break year. With all sorts of predictions swirling around the cryptocurrency, we thought some context could prove useful, so we produced an interactive data visualization of bitcoin and venture capital trends, breaking them…

Environmental, social and governance programs are a growing force in the private equity industry. Over the past few years, PitchBook has carried out a survey of industry professionals to assess ESG and related topics through the lens of several metrics. The full report can be found here, and for a brief snapshot of its highlights,…

The 2015 RBS 6 Nations Championship is underway, with England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales battling for regional supremacy ahead of this summer’s Rugby World Cup. But instead of talking tries and rucks, we wanted to preview the tournament with what we know best—data.

In our recently published European PE Breakdown Report, we discussed the U.K. fundraising scene, which currently appears to be the healthiest prospect within the continent. To provide a closer look at some of the biggest fundraising opportunities in the region, we delved into the PitchBook Platform to find the top three open funds. Click on for more.

Corporate venture capital isn’t new; companies like Intel, Siemens, Cisco and Johnson & Johnson have long had VC arms. But, as seemingly everything else in the venture realm, the number of active corporate VCs is quickly growing. In 2014, 166 different corporate VC investors completed at least one deal, a 73% increase from the 96 such…

In our ongoing series of Q&As and analysis, David Hellier of Bertram Capital shares his thoughts on the current state of PE portfolio management strategies, as well as their evolution over the past few years.